Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
To Say Nothing: A Diary of Memory

To Say Nothing: A Diary of Memory

Hansen, Neil

Paperback

Series: To Say Nothing, Book 2

Biographies GeneralCanadian History

Currently unavailable to order

ISBN10: 1496071867
ISBN13: 9781496071866
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 25 2014
Pages: 572
Weight: 1.66
Height: 1.16 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

VOLUME 2. Soy vago y vago. I am vague and I wander. It doesn't get easier for our hapless hero in Act Two, and if you were lucky enough to read TO SAY NOTHING, A DIARY OF MEMORY, VOL. 1, you will know already that our protagonist is a creature of no great force of character or dignity, and you are as likely to be irritated by him as to sympathize. But this should not stop you from reading VOLUME 2 of Neil Hansen's delightfully daft memoir. It is a vagabonding picaresque, a hippie Bildungsgeschichte, or close enough, of a young man, as sincere as he is passive and lazy, buggering around in the last half of the 20th century, a lover and a leaner. He describes his adventures, the places he sees, and the people he meets in occasionally charming, occasionally repulsive detail, honest and genial--usually. And when he airs his views on the difficulties, confusions, and haphazards of a man of his singular disposition, he remembers, well, most of the time, and occasionally proves, that philosophy is best left to philosophers. It is now 1978, and Neil has wandered up and down the world as a grown-up for ten years. He has realized that if you focus on your career and work hard for many years, you will undoubtedly learn a great many things, you will acquire and hone a number of skills, and build a good foundation for yourself and your family, but other than that, really, what have you accomplished? In modern Western society you will have consumed far more than your fair share of the Earth's blessings and been a nuisance to yourself and others. Better perhaps to tread lightly and live a life of little resistance? But even in a wandering life, blown east in the morning and west in the afternoon by the strength of your own sighs, there are many rocks and many hard places. Fortunately there's sexy stuff, too.

Also in

Biographies General

View All